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dealing - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | dealings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business relations |
| Synonyms: | business, commerce, doings, intercourse, proceedings, sale, things, trade, traffic, truck, affairs, balls in air, concerns, irons in fire, matters, ropes, strings, transactions, wire pulling, wires |
| Main Entry: | deal/deal with |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | handle, manage |
| Synonyms: | act, approach, behave, clear, concern, consider, control, direct, discuss, hack it*, handle, oversee, play, review, rid, serve, take, treat, unburden, use, attend to, behave toward, conduct oneself, cope with, get a handle on something, have to do with, live with, make a go of it, make it, see to, take care of |
| Antonyms: | mismanage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do business |
| Synonyms: | bargain, barter, bicker, dicker*, handle, negotiate, sell, stock, swap, trade, traffic, treat, buy and sell, hammer out deal, horse trade, knock down price, work out deal |
| Antonyms: | deny, refuse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distribute |
| Synonyms: | administer, allot, apportion, assign, bestow, deliver, disburse, dish out*, dispense, disperse, disseminate, divide, dole out*, drop, give, hand out, impart, inflict, measure, partake, participate, partition, render, reward, share, strike, come across with, divvy, fork out*, fork over, mete out |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commerce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | business, dealings, economics, exchange, industry, marketing, trade, traffic, truck, dealing, merchandising, merchantry, retailing, wholesaling |
| Main Entry: | contraband |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black-market production |
| Synonyms: | counterfeiting, crime, goods*, moonshine*, piracy, plunder, smuggling, stuff, swag, theft, violation, bootlegging, dealing, poaching, rum-running, trafficking, wetbacking |
| Antonyms: | legal goods |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | distribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allocation, dispersion |
| Synonyms: | administration, allotment, apportionment, assessment, circulating, circulation, delivery, diffusion, dispensation, disposal, dissemination, division, dole, handling, mailing, marketing, partition, propagation, scattering, sharing, spreading, transport, transportation, alloting, apportioning, assigning, dealing, dispersal, disposing, dissipating, handing out, partitioning, prorating, rationing, trading |
| Antonyms: | collection, gathering, hoard, maintenance, store, hoarding |
| Main Entry: | exchange |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trade; deal |
| Synonyms: | barter, change, commerce, commutation, conversion, correspondence, interchange, network, quid pro quo, reciprocity, replacement, revision, shift, shuffle, substitution, swap, switch, tit for tat*, traffic, transaction, transfer, truck*, buying and selling, castling, dealing, interdependence, interrelation, rearrangement, reciprocation, shuffling, supplanting, supplantment, transposing, transposition |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | barter, business, clientele, commerce, contract, custom, deal, enterprise, exchange, industry, interchange, market, patronage, public, swap, traffic, transaction, truck, customers, dealing, merchantry, sales |
| Main Entry: | traffic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | barter, business, closeness, commerce, communication, communion, connection, custom, dealings*, doings*, exchange, familiarity, industry, interchange, intercourse, intimacy, patronage, relationship, soliciting, trade, truck*, dealing, merchantry, peddling, relations, transactions |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | treatment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | handling of entity, situation |
| Synonyms: | angle, approach, conduct, custom, employment, execution, habit, line, management, manipulation, manner, method, mode, modus operandi, practice, procedure, proceeding, reception, strategy, usage, way, action towards, behavior towards, dealing, processing |
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | individual deed |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, act, blow, commission, dealings, doing, effort, enterprise, execution, exercise, exertion, exploit, feat, handiwork, maneuver, manipulation, move, operation, performance, procedure, step, stroke, thrust, transaction, undertaking |
| Main Entry: | administer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispense something needed |
| Synonyms: | apply, apportion, authorize, bring, contribute, deal, deliver, disburse, distribute, dole out, execute, extend, furnish, give, impose, inflict, issue, offer, perform, portion, proffer, provide, regulate, serve, supply, tender, measure out, mete out |
| Antonyms: | deny, frustrate, refuse, withhold |
| Main Entry: | apportion |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | divide into shares |
| Synonyms: | accord, administer, allocate, allot, assign, bestow, cut, cut up, deal, dispense, distribute, divvy up, dole out, give, lot, measure, mete, parcel, part, partition, prorate, ration, slice, split, split up, admeasure, divvy, piece up |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, monopolize, withhold |
| Main Entry: | bargain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | negotiate terms of sale or agreement |
| Synonyms: | agree, arrange, barter, buy, compromise, confer, contract, covenant, deal, dicker, haggle, palter, promise, sell, stipulate, trade, traffic, transact, do business, make terms |
| Main Entry: | behavior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner of conducting oneself |
| Synonyms: | act, action, address, air, attitude, bag*, bearing, carriage, code, comportment, conduct, convention, course, dealings, decency, decorum, deed, delivery, demeanor, deportment, ethics, etiquette, expression, form, front, guise, habits, management, mien, mode, morals, nature, observance, performance, practice, presence, propriety, ritual, role, routine, savoir-faire, seemliness, social graces, speech, style, tact, talk, taste, tenue, tone, way, way of life, ways, what's done |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commerce, trade |
| Synonyms: | bargaining, barter, deal, dealings, exchange, free enterprise, game, industry, manufacturing, market, racket*, selling, traffic, transaction, undertaking, affairs, buying and selling, capital and labor, commercialism, contracts, industrialism, merchandising, production and distribution, sales, trading |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | confer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discuss, deliberate |
| Synonyms: | advise, argue, bargain, blitz*, brainstorm*, breeze*, collogue, confab, confabulate, consult, converse, deal, debate, discourse, flap*, gab*, get heads together, give meeting, groupthink, huddle, jaw, kick ideas around, negotiate, parley, pick one's brain, powwow*, speak, talk, toss ideas around, treat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | manage, contend |
| Synonyms: | battle with, buffet, carry on, confront, deal, dispatch, encounter, endure, face, get a handle on, get by, grapple, hack it*, hack*, handle, hold one's own, live with, make go of it, make it, make out*, make the grade, pit oneself against, rise to occasion, struggle, struggle through, suffer, survive, tangle, tussle, weather, wrestle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deliver |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | administer; throw |
| Synonyms: | aim, deal, direct, dispatch, fling, give, hurl, inflict, launch, pitch, send, strike, transmit |
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